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[National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Application] Final technical report
Scott T. Weidman - 2009
The National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (BMSA) is a primary interface between the research enterprise and federal agencies that rely on the mathematical sciences. The Board provides objective and authoritative advice on how best to apply the tools of...
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Feasibility study to update annualized cost of leaving (ACOL) procedures at the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center (NPRDC)
Trumble, D.; Flanagan, D.M. - 2008
Personnel Research and Development Center (NPRDC), reviews existing forecasting and simulation methodologies and suggests new …
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1991 Annual report on scientific programs: A broad research program on the sciences of complexity
2008
1991 was continued rapid growth for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as it broadened its interdisciplinary research into the organization, evolution and operation of complex systems and sought deeply the principles underlying their dynamic behavior. Research on complex systems--the focus of work at...
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Selection of technical risk responses for efficient contingencies
Kujawski, Edouard - 2008
) that achieves the lowest total project cost for a given probability of success while meeting technical performance and … Monte Carlo simulation tools. The approach is detailed using a realistic but simplified case of a project with two technical …
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The International Coal Statistics Data Base program maintenance guide
2008
secondary data base, meaning that information contained therein is derived entirely from other primary sources. It uses dBase …
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Methods for developing and validating survivability distributions
Williams, R.L. - 2008
simulation was used to develop the system survivability distribution from the component distributions using a system model that … applied by computer simulation; and (3) neither test data nor adequate knowledge of the physics are known, in which case, one … performance of this communications network is developed, as well as the survivability distributions for the nodes and links based …
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Power to detect normal mixtures: Simulation results
Thode, H.C. Jr. - 2008
Twenty tests for normality were compared for the purpose of detecting mixtures of two normal components with unequal means but equal variance. The purpose of this study was to determine the power of tests specifically designed to detect mixtures, i.e., the likelihood ratio and Engelman-Hartigan...
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Livermore Computing Production Control System, 3.0: Product description. Revision 1
Wood, R.R. - 2008
The purpose of this document is to introduce and describe the Livermore Computing Production Control System, commonly called the PCS. Resource management is very difficult in typical UNIX and related systems. The weakness involves the allocation, control and delivery of the usage of computer...
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Management issues in automated audit analysis
Jackson, K.A.; Hochberg, J.G.; Wilhelmy, S.K.; McClary, J.F. - 2008
This paper discusses management issues associated with the design and implementation of an automated audit analysis system that we use to detect security events. It gives the viewpoint of a team directly responsible for developing and managing such a system. We use Los Alamos National...
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The new quality philosophy and management's role
Narath, A. - 2008
American industry the need for ever higher levels of performance. And, similar forces are necessitating improved performance in … cost, schedule and product performance that characterize the modern Quality ethic. This paper discusses the manager's role …
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